Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 8
Muza was lauded as prudent, sagacious, dignified, and systematic in his dealings.
Who acts: TARIC · What happens: laud, deal · To what, where: Muza
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TARIC), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lauded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lauded | aux:pass |
| 3 | lauded | laud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 prudent | case |
| 5 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lauded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sagacious | punct |
| 7 | sagacious | sagacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prudent | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dignified | punct |
| 9 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prudent | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 systematic | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 systematic | cc |
| 12 | systematic | systematic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lauded | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dealings | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dealings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dealings | dealing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 systematic | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lauded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laud | past · passive | Muza | as prudent; systematic in TARIC's dealings conj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as prudent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | deal | TARIC | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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